My email alerts this morning brought me links to discussions of learning journey plans and microlearning.
By coincidence, my physical journey to the University of Canberra campus today took me past the light rail building work on Northbourne Avenue, the first signs of a station stop under construction, and this poster:
The posts that took me on my metaphorical learning journey were:
- Helen Blunden’s Create Your Own Personal Learning Plan.
- Sharon Boller’s Why You Need A Learning Journey Map.
- Shannon Tipton’s 7 Deadly Myths of Microlearning.
Helen discusses tinkering, sense-making and creating in her post in the context of Harold Jarche’s seek, sense, share framework. She shares her personal learning plan template. Helen’s categories in this plan are:
- Exploration
- Reading
- Contribution
- Creation
- Reflection
- Action
Her template is available at this link.
Sharon’s post includes this visualisation of a learning journey:
Sharon will have a template to share that will require learners to plan for four phases (prepare, acquire knowledge and skill, build memory and transfer, use over time) and six steps of their journey:
- Notice
- Commit
- Learn and practice
- Repeat and elaborate
- Reflect and explore
- Sustain over the long term.
Shannon’s discussion of microlearning helped me think about how I might support the learning journey with small stops on the way. Shannon sought to counter seven myths about microlearning:
- Microlearning is time-dependent
- Microlearning is all about video
- Microlearning is just chunking
- Microlearning requires technology
- Microlearning is one-size fits all
- Microlearning is easy-peasy to create
- Microlearning is a fad
Canberra’s light rail will have thirteen stops on the journey in phase 1 of the project. The Canberra Metro website shares this aspiration:
Light Rail in Canberra offers an exciting opportunity to transform Canberra and deliver a truly integrated transport system, which will provide more options in how Canberrans move around, which in turn will enrich lifestyles and enhance growth.
I wonder whether some of these ideas fit learning journeys too. I particularly like the idea of transformational journeys … with very flexible timetables.
Photo Credits
Frame 11 (N J Cull, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Light rail coming poster 2018 (Spelio, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
